A heads-up that the topic of winter maintenance is on the agenda for Monday's Transportation Policy & Planning Board meeting (Jan 7, 5pm, 210 Martin Luther King Jr Blvd, Council Chambers Room 201).
It would be great if some people who ride in the winter would attend the meeting and emphasize how important it is to have bike facilities that work year-round, every day of the week, and independent of which agency is charge of things. Some background (courtesy of Grant Foster): Here's the link to last month's Transportation Policy & Planning Board meeting discussion on Bicycle Facility Maintenance <https://media.cityofmadison.com/Mediasite/Play/31bb11e8804f4e069a233699741e439a1d?playFrom=406000>. The whole discussion is about 45 minutes long. The board asked staff to go back and prepare additional detail for a follow up discussion at this month's TPPB meeting <https://madison.legistar.com/View.ashx?M=A&ID=650067&GUID=DD42517C-59C0-4B3F-B0AA-1C0C4D48727F> on Monday, January 7th at 5 pm. Here is the legistar link <https://madison.legistar.com/LegislationDetail.aspx?ID=3825650&GUID=9934D143-07CE-4373-9962-1566F5773C6A> to materials for the presentation, including the original subcommittee presentation with recommendations <https://madison.legistar.com/View.ashx?M=F&ID=6960194&GUID=9D35C569-A039-4ECF-A9BB-B9739F4D095B> . If you're interested in improved maintenance of our bike network, consider taking some time to review the subcommittee recommendations and watching last month's discussion. If you're able, you should also consider attending next week's meeting to provide comment or sending email comment to the TPPB members listed below. Also please feel free to reach out if you have any questions. [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Harald. On Thu, Jan 3, 2019 at 5:05 PM Andy Bach via Bikies < [email protected]> wrote: > > I **HOPE** this was an exception, based on it being a holiday and the > timing of the snowfall. Or is this the level of maintenance / commuting > conditions we can expect "for the duration"? > > I've ridden year 'round for a while now and, in general, the paths are in > pretty good shape. As you say, better than the streets; many times, coming > from the west side (Blackhawk, Shorewood, U Bay field/UW hosp path, > Lakeshore Path, used to ride in from the east from Jennifer too), I have > cruised right in while University ave was at a standstill due to snow. But > the Wed paths were a bit of a mess and today was better, but still a bit > bumpy and icy. I'd blame this particular sequence of weather - it's > certainly been my experience that the paths are well cared for all winter > long. YMMV ;-> > > On Wed, Jan 2, 2019 at 6:37 PM Paul T. O'Leary via Bikies < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> Granted, this is the first time in years that I've cycle-commuted in >> winter. But I don't remember path conditions being as bad back then as >> they were today (Wed), both AM and PM. Esp. given this is the first >> "real" snowfall of the season, this does not bode well. This is on the >> Cap City west of Ingersoll, and the "missing link" and Southwest out to >> Midvale. Yesterday (Tue), things were a bit sketchy, but reasonably >> passable. It had been plowed, but had fresh snow that had been compacted >> by foot and cycle traffic. My WAG is that someone was sent out late >> Monday, while the snow was still falling, to plow what had fallen so >> far, but did not want to pay to have someone plow again on New Year's >> Day AFTER the last of the snowfall. >> >> Wed AM, the inbound side of the Cap City had been sanded, but nothing >> more had been plowed. By afternoon, it had turned to rutted cobblestone. >> It was better on the streets; even the unplowed streets at least had >> fairly smooth flat snow. >> >> I **HOPE** this was an exception, based on it being a holiday and the >> timing of the snowfall. Or is this the level of maintenance / commuting >> conditions we can expect "for the duration"? >> >> -- >> Paul T. O'Leary >> Chronic Nuisance >> Madison, WI USA >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Bikies mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.danenet.org/listinfo.cgi/bikies-danenet.org >> > > > -- > > a > > Andy Bach, > [email protected] > 608 658-1890 cell > 608 261-5738 wk > _______________________________________________ > Bikies mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.danenet.org/listinfo.cgi/bikies-danenet.org > -- Please use encrypted communication whenever possible! Key-ID: 0x34cb93972f186565
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